Clothes-line-reeling device.



, PATENTED JUNE 9', 1908.

C.B.BALBAOH.

GLOTHES LINE REELING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 25, 1907.

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CARL E. BALBAOH, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

CLOTHES-LINE-REELING DEVICE.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL E. BALBAGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line-Reeling Devices, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes-line reeling device, intended as a 0011- venient article for domestic use for reeling and housing clothes lines, and to afford means by which the line may be made taut after it has been drawn from the reel.

The invention has reference to a structure of few parts and which, therefore, may be economical in manufacture, and which will be efficient for the purposes designed; and consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts fully described herein,

pointed out by the claims and illustrated. in

the drawing, wherein,-

Figure 1 is a vertical, end view of the invention mounted upon a post, the latter being partly broken away. Fig. 2- is a vertical front view of the invention, a part of the circular covering or shell being broken away. Fig. 3 is a view sectioned between lines a a and b b of Fig. 1, to illustrate structure of spool and side plates. Fig. 4 shows a fragment of an end plate, broken away to disclose a part of the reel, and to show a part of the circular cover and rollers in section. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a rectangular plate used to form a shell or cover, and Fig. 6 is a front view of the shell or circular wall formed by bending the plate shown in Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawing for a more particular description, numeral 1 indicates a pair of reel-ar1ns formed as parallel disks, rigidly secured upon and near the ends of shaft 2, the latter having aperture 3 transversely formed therein, and the construction, as described, defines a spool or reel upon which the clothes line 4 may be wound.

A circular housing-box 5 is formed by use of substantially circular end-plates 6 preferably constructed of cast metal, each having an inturned flange 7 at its periphery, these end-plates being disposed parallel; and I employ a cylindrical shell 8 which may be conveniently formed by bending the rectangular plate 8 (Fig. 5.); this plate is preferably constructed of galvanized iron, and this shell is seated transversely between end-plates 6, upon the inner sides of flanges 7 of the end- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 25, 1907.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Serial No. 399,144.

plates; and shell Shas oppositely-disposed terminals 9, forming an aperture 10 tierebetween, this aperture being indicated by the broken lines 0 c in Fig. 2. Since disks 1 have a less diameter than end-plates 6, there is sufficient space outside the plane of the disks for use of transverse bolts 11 for securing the end-plates together, and they are thus secured; covering 8 has a seating outside the plane of the bolts and in contact with the inner side of flanges 7; and shaft 2 has endbearings in the central openings 12, formed in the end-plates. Bases 13, with flat bearing-faces 14 are formed upon the perimeter of the endplates; these bases are similarly disposed, and are formed with extensions or holding-flanges 15; and the housing-box, with the reel seated therein may be secured to extend horizontally, upon any suitable support, as post 16, by use of bolts 17.

As thus described, housing-box 5 provides a convenient means for storing a clothes line, the latter being secured to chain 18 one end of which is secured to shaft 2 by traversing aperture 3 of said shaft, the chain being ex tended through aperture 10 of'the housingbox, its opposite end being provided with a ring 19 of less diameter than the size of aperture 10. By turning crank 20, the line may be wound upon shaft 2 between disks 1 and may be housed when not in use. 1 Upon the. end of shaft 2; opposite the crank, and exteriorly of the box, is secured ratchet 21 which is engaged by the pawl 22, mounted upon the end-plate, the operation of these parts being to hold the spool or reel and prevent unwinding of the line, after said line has been drawn and operatively placed, and, in connection with the crank, to cause the line, after said line has been drawn out and operatively placed, to become and remain in a strained or taut condition.

In order that the clothes line, at time of unwinding the reel, may be protected from a contact with the terminal edges 0 c ofthe cover or shell, I employ transversely and oppositely disposed rollers 23 having endmountings upon bearing-plates 24:, the latter being secured adjacent end-plates 6 and extended outwardly of cover 8; and bearingbe noted, affords a convenient means for attaching the line.

While the device, when operatively mounted, should extend outwardly or horizontally from bearing-faces 14, it may be secured to any suitable, vertical surface for use and, of course, remains as afixture when thus mounted. At the time of unwinding the line from the reel, the pawl may be manually turned from engagement with the ratchet.

What I claim as my invention is,-

In a clothes line reel the combination with a casing, of means for securing said casing to a fixed support, a rotative reel mounted in rollers extending entirely across the opening ii of said casing, one of said rollers being located at the lower side of said opening and the other of said rollers being located at the upper side of said opening, a pair of bearing plates secured to said casing in which said rollers are journaled the outer portions of said plates being bent toward each other and inwardly between the rollers to form contact flanges.

In testimony whereof I have a'ffixed my :5

signature in presence of two witnesses.

, CARL E. BALBACH.

Witnesses:

FRED J. WILLIAMS, I-IIRAM A. STURGEs. 

